And short the season : poems by Kumin, Maxine, 1925-2014, Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress) instant download

And short the season : poems by Kumin, Maxine, 1925-2014, Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress) instant download

108 pages ; 22 cm, \"A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Kumin is 'unforgettable, indispensable' (New York Times Book Review). In And Short the Season she muses on mortality: her own and that of the earth. Always deeply personal, always political, these poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind.\"--Publisher's description, I -- Whereof the gift Is small -- The path, the chair -- A day's work -- Our mantle -- Purim and the beetles of Our Lady -- Discrete activities -- Indian pipes -- The furtive visit -- Elegy beginning with half a line from Ben Jonson -- Rosie speaks -- The luxury -- II -- Ancient history in the eye center -- Murder -- Radford, Virginia, 1904 -- The revisionist dream -- Taken inside -- The bird, the Court of Common Pleas, the Czar -- The last good war -- The standing roast -- Wellfleet, Cape Cod -- No place -- National Velvet -- III -- Old news -- Red tape and kangaroo courts I -- Red tape and kangaroo courts II -- The pre-trial confinement of Private Bradley Manning -- Sonnets uncorseted -- IV -- At the end -- Xanthopsia -- Howl revisited -- On speaking terms -- Mourners, onlookers, gawkers -- Seeing things -- The women return from digging roots in the Kalahari -- The last word -- Truth -- V -- Ah, poetry -- William Carlos Williams -- Provincetown, Cape Cod, 1963 -- The day my student teaches me that life is not art -- Cabbages -- Either or -- Going down -- Just deserts -- Pallas's horse -- This one -- Allow me